Improving the levels of understanding in Chemistry based on the teaching approach for understanding

Abstract

In the elementary school headquarter of Institución Educativa Departamental El Volcán, city of Ubaté in Colombia, it was developed an action research project with a qualitative approach and descriptive scope about the transformation of pedagogical practice in order to create critical thinking abilities such as, interpretation and explanation based on the approach of teaching for comprehension.
It was analyzed the transformation process of the pedagogical practice that allows curricular programs which entail the development of the explanation and the interpretation.
Besides, pedagogical strategies were designed to approach the teaching for comprehension and evaluate their impact on critical thinking abilities in order to promote comprehension among students.
It presents the improvement of the conditions of the tenth grade students in the subject of Chemistry, compared to the content of the discipline and the development of critical thinking skills based on the change in the pedagogical practices of Science teachers in a rural area.
Therefore, a clear and coherent organization in the planning of the classes, the reflections on the practices, the continuous evaluation of the learning and the use of the learning, and the use of routines led to improve the levels of comprehension in the students.